Okay, never mind. The Apache2::Log methods are in fact working for me. Stupid error.
I am still curious about the difference between the Apache2::Request object which is the default request record accessor, and the Apache2::RequestRec object which comes out of Apache2::RequestUtil::request. On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Charlie Katz <ck...@cfa.harvard.edu> wrote: > Hi, I'm confused about something. I am cleaning up some legacy Perl code > in our application, and I find a number of our custom Perl modules have > functions which require $r be passed to them solely for use in logging (e.g. > $r->log->error()). I want to remove that requirement, so I am changing > things around so that the code uses Apache2::RequestUtil::request to get the > request object when needed. This is working fine, except when I use the > object retrieved that way, the $r->log methods fail to write to the server > log. In addition, I see that the original $r and the new one from > A::RU::request are different: > > use Data::Dumper; > print STDERR Dumper($r); > print STDERR Dumper(Apache2::RequestUtil->request); > > yields > > $VAR1 = bless( do{\(my $o = 158143776)}, 'Apache2::Request' ); > $VAR1 = bless( do{\(my $o = 158116376)}, 'Apache2::RequestRec' ); > > Can someone help me understand this difference, and how to use the object > retrieved from A::RU::request to access the Apache2::Log methods? Why isn't > the original $r an Apache2::RequestRec object? > > This is Perl 5.14.2, mod_perl 2.0.5 > > Thanks. > > Charlie Katz > >